A family firm has come up with a revolutionary way of turning old tennis balls into new ones – a move that could save hundreds of millions of them from ending up in landfill each year. Price Of Bath – the country’s last tennis ball manufacturer – has adapted a machine to grind discarded balls into a fine dust, from which they can be reconstituted. Like Coca-Cola, we have a fiercely guarded secret recipe.’About 300 million tennis balls are made globally each year but only a fraction of these are recycled. In the US, where 125 million balls are used annually, less than half of one per cent are reprocessed. At its peak, Price Of Bath made some four million balls a year but that has now fallen to about 400,000.

Source: Daily Mail March 07, 2021 01:47 UTC